Woman arrested for punching Southwest Airlines worker

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By Itoro Umontuen | on November 14, 2021

By The Associated Press

This November 2021 photograph made disposable by The County of Dallas shows Arielle Jackson. Jackson, 32, was arrested Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, aft punching a Southwest Airlines worker successful the caput during boarding for a formation retired of a Dallas airport, constabulary said. (The County of Dallas via AP)

A pistillate has been arrested aft punching a Southwest Airlines worker successful the caput during boarding for a formation retired of a Dallas airport, constabulary said.

Arielle Jean Jackson, 32, was arrested Saturday day astatine Love Field, Dallas constabulary said. Police said Jackson has been charged with aggravated assault.

The incidental happened during the boarding process for a formation from Dallas to New York’s La Guardia Airport, Southwest Airlines spokesperson Chris Mainz said.

Police said that Jackson archetypal had a verbal altercation with an operations cause astatine the backmost of the level and was asked to exit. As Jackson was exiting, she had different verbal altercation with a 2nd operations cause that turned physical, with Jackson striking the cause connected the caput with a closed fist, constabulary said.

Mainz said the the operations agent, a woman, was taken to a infirmary and released Saturday night.

Jackson was successful Dallas County jailhouse connected Sunday connected $10,000 bond. Jail records did not database an lawyer for her.

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